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Patience Ward (1629 - 1696)

Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28702?docPos=66 Relevant locations: Residence at Manor of Tanshelf, Pontefract
Relationships: Patience Ward was a donor to Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

The Head of a Stag-Beetle or Flying Hart, as they are called in Virginia and New-England; it is considerably larger than the English Sort, the Horns near an Inch and half long. Of its shrill chirping, see the Phil. Trans. N° 127. Entire Flying Stags; it hath its Name from the Horns, which are branched exactly like the Stag's. These are of English Extraction, and by some called ..., from a park in Dorsetshire, whence these were procured for me by Patience Ward Esq.

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 Brinston Bucks or Flying Harts the entire Insect Patience Ward Es. Brinston near Blanford in Dorsetshire ye secrt. of ... Portman Es